Motions of the cloud medium behind large scale galactic shocks

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Jan 1982

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 252, Jan. 15, 1982, p. 508-523.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Galactic Structure, Gas Flow, Hydrodynamics, Interstellar Gas, Shock Fronts, Shock Wave Propagation, Density Wave Model, Drag, Flow Velocity, Navier-Stokes Equation, Spiral Galaxies, Stellar Evolution

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Mechanisms of decelerating the cloud medium in the large-scale galactic shock are studied. It is shown that the process of cloud-cloud collisions, which results in diffusive momentum transport and hence gives rise to the turbulent viscosity, is very effective in slowing down the cloud medium so that the postshock velocity of the intercloud medium can be matched within a short distance behind the shock front. The drag force exerted by the slow-moving intercloud medium alone is simply not enough to effectively decelerate the cloud medium in the shock. By the use of the results of Shu et al (1972), the internal structure of the shock of the cloud medium is analyzed by including turbulent viscous effects. The thickness of the shock is found to be on the order of 100 pc if the turbulent viscosity is taken proportional to the mean free path of the cloud-cloud collisions. The phase transition takes place in an even thinner layer on the order of 10 pc immediately after the viscous shock front of the intercloud medium.

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